for one's life

English

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Prepositional phrase

for one's life

  1. (idiomatic) Desperately
    • 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Basel continued to defend for their lives while occasionally threatening on the break.
  2. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) Whatsoever, at all
    • 2025, Fraxiom, “now 2”, performed by Food House:
      No backup plan / And I can't sing for my life

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